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Democrats offer plan to end shutdown, but no wall funds
Trump continued to press Democrats to "give us the votes necessary for border security" in a series of tweets on New Year's Eve. " To be honest, it's not a wall ", Kelly said in an exit interview with the Los Angeles Times .

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Trump Just Sent an Urgent Message About the Wall

The Democrats plan to vote on six Senate spending bills and a stopgap measure to re-open the Homeland Security Department at its current funding levels until February 8, the aide said. The Senate would not take it up because (Senate Minority Leader) Chuck Schumer would not allow the Democrats to provide the 60 votes necessary to take the bill up for consideration.

Talks have been at a stalemate for more than a week, after Democrats said the White House offered to accept $2.5 billion for border security. I'm ready to go.

Democrats formally take control of the House from Trump's fellow Republicans on Thursday after winning a majority of seats in November's mid-term congressional elections. He also said the compromise should include changes in federal law to discourage people from trying to enter the US illegally. Democrats say that's a no-go.

"It would be the height of irresponsibility and political cynicism for Senate Republicans to now reject the same legislation they have already supported", the leaders said.

And on Monday afternoon it emerged that some of the most famous national parks in the western United States are closing partially because of problems such as overflowing public toilets and garbage facilities, vandalism to fragile areas and resulting dangers to human and wildlife safety.

The partial government shutdown will nearly certainly be handed off to a divided government to solve in the new year, as both parties traded blame Friday and President Donald Trump sought to raise the stakes in the weeklong impasse. But a big sticking point is the word wall.

"To be honest, it's not a wall", Mr Kelly said, adding the mix of technological enhancements in the President's new preferred design resulted from conversations with law enforcement professionals on the ground.

The tweet comes after House Democrats released their plan to reopen the government without approving money for the wall.

Trump on Twitter criticized Democratic opposition to the wall project, which carries a total estimated price tag of US$23 billion.

After early threats to shut down government over the wall, Trump now believes he has public opinion on his side and, at very least, his base of supporters behind him, the officials said, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.

WASHINGTON, D.C.: Democratic lawmakers unveiled plans to emerge out of the partial shutdown of the federal government by examining and voting on an appropriations bill as soon as they take control of the House of Representatives - on Thursday.

"Border Security and the Wall "thing" and Shutdown is not where Nancy Pelosi wanted to start her tenure as Speaker!"

Within hours, Trump pushed back on Kelly's comments, tweeting that an "all concrete Wall was NEVER ABANDONED, as has been reported by the media". But like the proposal now on the table, it did not meet Trump's border-wall demands.

White House officials did not reply to an email asking whether the president had been in touch directly with Democratic leaders to set up a round of talks.

Fox News has learned there is a briefing at the White House on Wednesday for the top two leaders of each party from each chamber for the new Congress to discuss the impasse.